J&G Marshall Ltd offers legal and educational services. Our core business is helping schools to convert to academy status as well as supporting them post conversion.We do everything a school needs to become an academy - legals, project management, sourcing finance system and support as well as post conversion services via ourselves or our partner companies for accounts, HR, School Improvement, governing body training plus much more. Having supported over 270 schools in their journey to academy status, we are well placed to help your journey too.We conduct MAT Growth Audits to ascertain where a Trust is, where it wants/needs to be and how to get there through step change growth. We then also conduct MAT MOT's where we work with Trust Directors and CEO to be strategically sound and improve Trust governance. In essence, we ensure the Trust has the capacity to up-skill and upscale mindset, infrastructure, processes and systems. We support over 50 academy trusts on a day to day basis.We also offer a Due Diligence service to ensure the joining of school and Trust is robust and strategically sound always ensuring the best possible outcomes for the children. Our MAT Merger service provides all the support and legal work you need to bring two or more Trusts together. Given the national landscape, mergers are becoming more frequent. We conduct Governance Reviews for both Maintained schools and Academy Trusts across the country.Please visit www.academyconversion.com for more details

Marshall Professional Development provides training services to Multi Academy Trusts, Single Academy Trusts and maintained schools. Whether you are a Trust Member, Trustee or Governor, MPD supports your professional development and training. MPD offers a unique Trustee Development Programme which is accredited by CPDSO. This course prepares people to become Trustees in Multi Academy Trusts and also up-skills existing Trustees. We also offer External Reviews of Governance across the whole of the MAT. If you are a maintained school Governor, we provide External Reviews of Governance and Governor training sessions to improve your ability to govern.We have a coaching arm and our professional coaches deliver our accredited Learn 2 Coach course. The course provides the skills you need to become a coach.Our membership subscription service - The Club - supports leaders to develop their personal growth, coaching skills and well-being techniques.Please visit www.marshall-pd.co.uk for more details